Terza rima

created by Webster 1913

(idea) by neil (10 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Jun 17 2000 at 13:14:28

The form of Dante's Divina Commedia. Verse in terza rima is divided into three-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme being aba, bcb, cdc, . . .. Dante used iambic hexameter, but English poems more often use iambic pentameter.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:44:50

Ter"za ri"ma (?). [It., a third or triple rhyme.]

A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

June 28, 2004	Boccaccio	Abandon all hope ye who enter here	Forms of poetry
Dante's use of threes in the Inferno	Inferno - Canto XVIII	Sonnet	ottava rima
Noises made by cows in different languages	posterior cricoarytenoid	iambic pentameter	Iambic
Fairies	Dante's Inferno	Strophe	Flemish
Fire and Ice	Gibeon	George Shoobridge Carr	Countee Cullen
Hexameter	Shelley and Dante	Choreopoem	Purgatorio - Canto I

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